Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Larwyn's Linx: Feds build another massive bureaucracy to deal with Obama amnesty invasion

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Nation

Feds build bureaucracy to deal with Obama amnesty onslaught: Times
The President’s Exploitation: RebelPundit
Obamacare Replacement: More Covered, Fewer Pained: Betsy McCaughey

Mark Levin Shreds Obama's Vox Interview: Scoop
Democrats Risk a Jewish Backlash with Netanyahu Boycott: Keith Koffler
Mystery Shrouds J Street Claim '84%' of US Jews Back Obama Over : Algemeiner

First They Shut You Up, Then You Will Be Made to Care: Erick Erickson
Supreme Court set to condone homosexual marriage: RS
VOX Accidentally Breaks News, Instantly Regrets It: Sonny Bunch

The Rubio Factor: RS
Volatility in GOP Race: Dick Morris
Former Sen. Tom Coburn Joins Convention of States Project: Breitbart

Economy

The Fourth Turning: The Shadow of Crisis Has Not Passed, Part I: TBP
The Fourth Turning: The Shadow of Crisis Has Not Passed, Part II: TBP
U.S. Brags to U.N.: We Have 46.5 Million on Food Stamps: CNS

Scandal Central

White House Says They Will Not Release IRS Documents On Tea Party Targeting: WZ
May '14: Obama Knew Location of U.S. Hostages; Waited 7 Weeks to Order Rescue that Failed: FreeLight
‘Truly insane': Josh Earnest’s appalling defense of Obama’s ‘random’ shooting remarks: Twitchy

Climate & Energy

Failed climate predictions gets a website: WUWT
It's Final -- Corn Ethanol Is Of No Use: James Conca
The Climate Change “Consensus” Isn’t What the Washington Post Thinks: CFP

Media

WH Spends 7 Minutes Defending Obama Downplaying Terrorism, Calling Kosher Deli Attack ‘Random’: WFB
‘Random’ Comment From Vox Interview Is Now a PR Nightmare For President Buzzfeed: Sooper
#JewishLivesMatter: Roger L. Simon

Brian Williams Debacle Yet Another Reminder: Elite Media Despises Its Customers: Ed Driscoll
Tragic irony: Coexist artist beaten by Muslim gang in Paris: Allen West
At Grammys, Obama Promotes ‘Partnership’ With Soros-Funded Group: MRC

World

Caliphatalism? : Rasha Al Aqeedi
Obama: Iran nuke is against their religion: MediaEqualizer
In Speech, Iran’s Supreme Leader Rejects Idea of Framework Agreement: TheTower

Egyptian TV: Nobody dares admit Islamic State’s crimes are based on Islamic sources: JihadWatch
Sweden Doubles Down on Diversity: Brenda Walker, VDARE
Europe’s Jewish Population Continues to Plummet: Ethan Epstein

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

FCC and Net neutrality: What you really need to know : Marguerite Reardon
Net Neutrality: The FCC Has Picked Our Poison: NoJitter
US states demand Anthem should provide hack information quickly to customers: CIO

Cornucopia

Hitler Finds Out About Brian Williams: Orwell's Spectre
The People’s War on Mac and Cheese: The Dust Up: MOTUS
Obama burns down another US alliance: RS

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QOTD: "...after the fall of [Mosul], Manar, like every other female, has been forced to wear a full burqa. This outfit really does cramp one’s style. “Were we nude before? What was wrong with our clothes?” exclaims Manar, as her voice register shoots upward. “Nothing of our skin was exposed. Must we look like portable garbage bags for Allah to be content with us? How will I practice medicine? So that’s it? Everything I worked hard for and planned is gone?” She absolutely breaks my heart. This young, brilliant, and dedicated woman once so passionate about life is asking questions no one appears able to answer.

With Al-Husba (religious police) stationed at local markets to monitor women’s attire, the majority have submitted to the burqa, but some women have resisted and challenged ISIS militants with reason based on Islamic texts that the burqa is not mandatory. Dumbfounded and shocked, because they are to a man uneducated in genuine Islam, knowing only what their leaders have told them, several militants gave up the debate and left. The more hardcore ones refused any discussion. Whether they reject questioning the legitimacy of their religious laws or simply the idea of a woman standing up to them is hard to tell.
A new discourse has surfaced during the past six months in the conservative city of Mosul, one that should lead Islamists everywhere to some recalculation. In brief, it is this: Allah is not doing anything. A phrase considered to be the ultimate heresy in Islam is spreading widely in private discussions. ISIS religious fanatics are creating agnostics and atheists at an alarming rate." --Rasha Al Aqeedi

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Brian Williams is just the latest symptom of a diseased legacy media

By Alan Caruba

“When reporters forfeit their credibility by making up stories, sources, or quotes, we are right to mock them. When their violations are significant or repeated, they should be fired,” says Charles Lipson, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago. “Demanding honest reporting has nothing to do with the reporter’s politics, personality, or personal life. It is about professional standards and our reasonable expectations.”

Writing at RealClearPolitics.com, Prof. Lipson concluded by saying, “It’s essential for our news organizations, and it matters for our democracy.”

Are we seeing a trend here? Dan Rather at CBS and now Brian Williams at NBC? Well, two news anchors are not a trend, but biased and bad reporting is. It’s not new, but it does seem to be gathering momentum and nowhere has it been more apparent than the millions of words written and spoken about “global warming” and now “climate change.”

It would be easy and convenient to lay the blame on America’s Liar-in-Chief, President Barack Obama, but the “global warming” hoax began well before he came on the scene. It was the invention of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) dating back to its creation in 1988 when it was established by the UN Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organization.

The IPCC came to world attention with the creation of the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty that committed the nations that signed it to reduce “greenhouse gas emissions” based on the premise that global warming—a dramatic increase—was real and that it was man-made. The Protocol was adopted in Kyoto, Japan, on December 11, 1997. The United States Senate rejected it and our neighbor, Canada, later withdrew from it. Both China and India were exempted, free to continue building numerous coal-fired plants to generate the energy they need for development.

Today, though, the President is an unrelenting voice about the dangers of “climate change” which he and John Kerry, our Secretary of State, have rated the “greatest threat” to the world. Obama’s national security strategy document was released just a day before he equated the history of Christianity with the barbarism of today’s Islamic State.

BRAVE, BRAVE SIR CUOMO: Refuses to Condemn Assembly Speaker Charged With Sexual Harassment and Corruption

By Rusty Weiss

Despite persistent calls for former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s resignation, both from this site and from many prominent politicians, Governor Cuomo has stood steadfastly beside his friend and colleague. Through sexual harassment cover up after cover up, Cuomo refused to condemn Silver for his actions, his inactions, or otherwise.

Years went on as the Democrat piled up corruption allegations, and Cuomo stood idly by.

Recently, Silver was arrested on federal corruption charges for accepting over $4 million in kickbacks and bribes.

Now Cuomo insists he can’t be blamed for Silver being allowed to run a corrupt Assembly under his nose, throwing his hands up at the suggestion. In fact, he claims he’s no more responsible for Silver’s actions than President Obama was for Anthony Weiner’s discretions.

“If Anthony Weiner shows his private parts, do you blame Obama?” Cuomo told the New Yorker. “These are criminal acts of individual legislators. What would you have me do?”

Ah, but there’s one significant difference in that analogy, Mr. Cuomo.

25 Funniest Obama Quotes on Iran's Nuclear Weapons Program

Through a blatant cut-and-paste collaborative partnership with The Conservative Treehouse, the following are President Obama's stern warnings for Iran.

And please scroll down for the punchline.

Here is a timeline of the Obama administration’s Iran policy, as the world’s most dangerous nation and leading state sponsor of terrorism moves inexorably towards acquiring the world’s most dangerous weapon.

  1. “My expectation would be that if we can begin discussions soon, shortly after the Iranian elections, we should have a fairly good sense by the end of the year as to whether they are moving in the right direction.” President Obama, May 18, 2009, Washington, D.C.
  2. “The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.” Secretary Clinton, July 15, 2009, Washington, D.C.
  3. “We are not going to keep the window open forever.” Secretary Clinton, July 22, 2009, Bangkok, Thailand.#more#
  4. “The Iranians may simply try to run out the clock.” Defense Secretary Robert Gates, July 27, 2009.
  5. “Our patience is not infinite. We’re not willing to let this go on forever.” State Department spokesman Ian Kelly, September 14, 2009, Washington, D.C.
  6. “If Iran does not take steps in the near future to live up to its obligations, then the United States will not continue to negotiate indefinitely. . . . Our patience is not unlimited.” President Obama, October 1, 2009, Washington, D.C.
  7. “We are in what we hope is an intensive diplomatic phase now. It will not be open-ended.” Senior U.S. official, October 1, 2009, Geneva, Switzerland.

Larwyn's Linx: The Disgraceful Exit of Eric Holder

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Nation

The Disgraceful Exit of Eric Holder: Bob Owens
The Brute-Force Left: Kevin D. Williamson
Something Wicked This Way Comes: Erick Erickson

Obama Hints Illegal Immigration Will Drown Conservatism: DC
Vaccination Rates Among Immigrants Are a Legitimate Concern: CIS
The Democratic Majority That Emerged — And Disappeared: Michael Barone

Obama calls murdered Jews just ‘a bunch of folks’ shot ‘in a deli’: Twitchy
Lying Obama "Smacks" Netanyahu During Presser With Merkel: Lid
Why Did Biden and Kerry Meet With Netanyahu’s Political Rival?: Tammy Bruce

David Brock resigns from a pro-Hillary PAC as only David Brock can: Moe Lane
Bobby Jindal Versus the Lily-Livered: Leon H. Wolf
Jeb Bush: If you like your borders you can keep your borders: RS

Economy

Illinois’ GOP governor goes about dismantling state union’s power: Hot Air
GOP FCC Member Warns Net Neutrality is Not Neutral: Breitbart
Southern California Edison Workers Just More H-1B Roadkill: CIS

Scandal Central

9/11 Link To Saudi Arabia Is Topic Of 28 Redacted Pages In Government Report: Jamie Reno
Why are a bunch of “3 letter agencies” gathering intel on gun owners?: Dave Dolbee
Bergdahl report held hostage: Evan Buetow and Cody Full

Climate & Energy

'Breathtaking' adjustments to Arctic temperature record: Breitbart
Phony CIA Agent Pulled Off a ‘Scam’ to Impose Environmental Regulations: Kevin Mooney
Arrogant statism of global warming fanatics: Daniel J. Mitchell

Media

New York Times ruthlessly attacks someone named "Mr. Scott", who they say is Governor of Wisconsin: Don Surber
Brian Williams and the God Complex: Ken Auletta
JW Exposes Another NBC Scandal Days Before Brian Williams Debacle: JW

Brand New Information on Grover Norquist’s Palestinian Connection: Lee Stranahan
Mark Levin: ‘The Supreme Court is out of freaking control!’: Scoop
How to Make Sense of an Incoherent America: Victor Davis Hanson

Black Panther leader trains with police, has a change of heart: LI
Democrat Imbeciles Who Babble About Income Inequality Spotted at Grammys Red Carpet: JWF
OF COURSE: Obama blames media for ‘misleading’ polarization: Scoop

World

It’s happening again: Blue Force Tracker
President Compares Islam to Christianity: Dennis Prager
Bibi to Dems: Boycott all you want. I’m still giving the speech on Iran: Scoop

How To Commit Random Acts Of Obama: W. James Antle III
U Cal Student Gov’t votes to divest from most of world, including U.S.: LI
Greek FinMin Warns "Euro Will Collapse If Greece Exits", Italy Is Next: ZH

US kills Islamic State's deputy emir for 'Khorasan province' in airstrike: report: Bill Roggio
Hacker Group Anonymous Strikes First Blow Against ISIS: Yehuda Remer
Bob Woodward: There Is "No Strategy" To Defeat ISIS, WH "Micromanaging" War: RCP

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Measles, Vaccines and Autism: Thomas Sowell
Congress Looking Into White House’s Role in FCC’s Net Neutrality Regulations: WFB
Apple Watch isn’t out yet, and already it’s being banned from exam halls: Luke Dormehl

Cornucopia

Vote For Your Favorite Next NBC Nightly News Reader: MOTUS
Leaked Data From 30,000 Swiss Bank Accounts Reveals Mass Tax Avoidance: Gizmodo
“Ville Gagnée!”–The Crusaders Were Our Kin: John Derbyshire

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QOTD: "When future generations look back on the global-warming scare of the past 30 years, nothing will shock them more than the extent to which the official temperature records – on which the entire panic ultimately rested – were systematically “adjusted” to show the Earth as having warmed much more than the actual data justified.

Two weeks ago, under the headline “How we are being tricked by flawed data on global warming”, I wrote about Paul Homewood, who, on his Notalotofpeopleknowthat blog, had checked the published temperature graphs for three weather stations in Paraguay against the temperatures that had originally been recorded. In each instance, the actual trend of 60 years of data had been dramatically reversed, so that a cooling trend was changed to one that showed a marked warming.

This was only the latest of many examples of a practice long recognised by expert observers around the world – one that raises an ever larger question mark over the entire official surface-temperature record." --Christopher Booker

Monday, February 09, 2015

Gallup: Only Three States, D.C., Tilt Ideologically “Liberal”

At DownTrend, Robert Gehl relays some encouraging word from Gallup.

In only three states and the District of Columbia are there more self-professed liberals than conservatives.

Gallup’s latest “State of the States survey shows only residents of Hawaii, Massachusetts and Vermont are more liberal than conservative. The other 47 states tilt conservative to one degree or another.

Of course, the way one identifies themselves can differ markedly from reality, where many of these states are solidly Democratic.

Nationally, only 24 percent of Americans consider themselves ideologically liberal – but that number is up eight points from 20 years ago.

Still, it’s an indication that the political label “liberal” is still considered a dirty word in American politics.

And on the less encouraging theme of "the tide is shifting", earlier today President Obama alluded to the fact that illegal immigration will drown conservatism (and by extension, America).

Which is why only a Constitutional Conservative will do in 2016. Close the borders, tear down the regulatory state, and unleash the American economy.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

When you need to lawyer up...

Mr. Archie may a true marketing genius.


Hat tip: D.S.

"We know Bowe Bergdahl deserted because we were there when he did it"

By Evan Buetow and Cody Full

On June 30, 2009, in Mest Malak, Afghanistan, Bowe Bergdahl left his unit and deserted the U.S. Army. We know he deserted because we were there when he did it.

We are confident that the overdue report from political and military leaders on Bergdahl’s actions, sitting on a general’s desk since October, comes to the same conclusion. It has to because the facts are clear.

Whatever the reason is for the late report and confused reporting about whether Bergdahl is set to be charged with desertion, justice is being denied to those of us who were abandoned by a fellow soldier.

The White House ceremony in May to announce the exchange of five senior Taliban detainees from the Guantanamo Bay prison for our former platoon member sparked a national debate on a variety of controversial issues: executive power, mental health care, the War on Terror, prisoners of war, due process and legal justice. It is troubling to us that President Obama and his political team are silencing this needed public debate by not making the release of this report a priority.

In light of the new information that some of the Taliban prisoners swapped for our former platoonmate made moves to re-enter the war, we believe that this debate must begin in earnest by issuing a report on the facts.

Like most people, we have opinions about how Bowe’s release affects these issues. Unlike others though, we were his team leaders, friends and brothers in arms. We have firsthand knowledge of the case and were interviewed as part of the investigation.

For five years, Bowe was held captive and likely tortured, suffering a fate that haunted us daily. We might never understand what happened inside the Taliban prisons that held him, nor will we know what was said in the political backrooms in Washington, D.C., that led to his release. Even so, the facts of his desertion need to be known in order to understand what the consequences and precedent will be if his acts go unpunished.

Here is what we know:

Obama should personally award Purple Hearts and apologize to the victims of Ft. Hood -- but he won't

By Investor's Business Daily

Political Correctness: The Army has announced that as a result of Congress' making victims of attacks by foreign terrorist acts eligible, the Fort Hood victims will get Purple Hearts, and civilians will get Defense of Freedom medals.

That language broadened the definition of an attack on eligible victims to include an assault by "a foreign terrorist organization." The definition includes attacks by a perpetrator or perpetrators in contact with a foreign terrorist organization or "inspired or motivated by a foreign terrorist organization" prior to the attack.

The Nov. 5, 2009, attack on Fort Hood by Maj. Nidal Hasan, in which he killed 13 and wounded 32 while shouting "Allahu Akbar!," fits the new eligibility requirements. Hasan was known to have been in contact before the attack with American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a senior leader in al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), and left a paper trail of support for and inspiration by Awlaki and AQAP.

President Obama, of course, is not going to personally present the long-delayed medals made possible by language included in the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act. That would require him to agree that Hasan was linked to, and motivated by, AQAP, a terrorist organization. That would make Fort Hood a terrorist attack and Hasan an Islamic terrorist.

Larwyn's Linx: DHS sets up Obama amnesty complaint hotlines for illegals

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Nation

DHS sets up Obama amnesty complaint hotlines for illegals: Times
Illegal Immigrants to Receive Earned Income Tax Credit: Daniel Halper
Obama Destroying Middle Class Workers with Illegal Work Permits: Sara Noble

Did the Obama Administration lie about Netanyahu?: Volokh
More Evidence: White House Trying To Manipulate Israel Elections: Treehouse
Obama’s Lies About The Crusades vs Islamic Jihad: RWN

Tax Day Shocker: Obamacare ‘Clawback’ To Hit Some With Huge Tax Bill : DC
Want to take your country back? Here’s where it starts: Bob Livingston
Fake Watchdog Group SPLC Puts Ben Carson on ‘Extremist’ Watch List: Wizbang

Sen. Ted Cruz 'seriously' considering White House run: Zack Colman
Is *Hillary* Ready?: Moe Lane
The Great 2016 Tea Party Dilemma: Lloyd Marcus

Economy

When your government lies to you: Bruce McQuain
More non-union teachers than unionized ones for first time in U.S.: EAG
For Most Of Us, There's No "Recovery": Jack Kelly

Scandal Central

Transparency: 47 Inspectors General Denied Documents in Violation of Law: MB
‘Tell Brian Williams to stop lying’: JWF
Brian Williams Bragged He Owns Part of Fuselage of Helicopter Crashed in Bin Laden Raid: Sooper

Climate & Energy

The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever: Telegraph
Thanks To IPCC, Public Unaware Water Vapor Is Most Important Greenhouse Gas: WUWT
Noted Hummer owner lectures us on Global Warming: AP

Media

The question about the ‘Dream Act’ from Dana Bash that Ted Cruz called “RIDICULOUS”: Scoop
Homeland Security Sec: 'We Do a Pretty Good Job of Tracking Terrorists': TR
Edison screws its employees, too: San Diego Reader

WaPo Editorial Faults President for Allowing Iran To Become “Regional Power”: TheTower
The Problem With Race Wars Among Minorities: Jim Goad
Chuck Todd Theory: Obama Doesn't Like Prayer Breakfast, Wanted to Stir Up Trouble: TR

World

Is This the End of NATO?: The XX Committee
China’s secret plan for America: MacLean's
Obama Lapdog ADL's Abe Foxman Tells Bibi To Move His Congressional Speech: Lid

Did the ISIS Video Backfire? No.: Global Guerillas
Muslims Protest Downing Street, Warning Britain Not To Insult Mohammed: Breitbart
The Middle East Has Declared War on ISIS, and Obama Won’t Help: Elephant

Blame Germany If Europe Implodes: Christopher Whalen
Putin visits Egypt in bid to expand influence, arms deals: Times of Israel
Hundreds killed as Chadian military overruns Boko Haram strongholds: LWJ

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

What is on the Other Side of a Black Hole?: Fraser Cain
SpaceX delays launch of space weather satellite: The Week
Human Traffickers Caught on Hidden Internet: SciAm

Cornucopia

Ukraine: Artillery Fire, Not ‘Tactical Nuke’ Attack, Sets Off Enormous Explosion: RWN
Conan jokingly imagines other self-aggrandizing Brian Williams fabulations: The Week
Rare Shoeless Joe Jackson Autographed Photo May Bring $100,000: ABC

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QOTD: "With no pushback from the brass at NBC, Williams has spent years fervently “courting celebrity,” as The Hollywood Reporter put it, guest starring on “30 Rock,” slow-jamming the news with Jimmy Fallon and regaling David Letterman with his faux heroics: “Two of our four helicopters were hit by ground fire, including the one I was in, RPG and AK-47.”

As his profession shrinks and softens, Williams felt compelled to try to steal the kind of glory that can only be earned the hard way." --Maureen Dowd

Sunday, February 08, 2015

In a crushing economy, Obama administration has issued 6 million new work permits to aliens since 2009

Because, why not?

Government data reveal that about 5.5 million new work permits were issued to aliens from 2009 to 2014, above and beyond the number of new green card and temporary worker admissions in those years. This is a huge parallel immigrant work authorization system outside the limits set by Congress that inevitably impacts opportunities for U.S. workers, damages the integrity of the immigration system, and encourages illegal immigration.

Approximately 1.8 million new work permits were issued to aliens with temporary visas or those who entered under the Visa Waiver Program. Of these, about 1.2 million (67 percent) had a visa status for which employment is not authorized by law. For example, more than 470,000 work permits were issued to aliens on tourist visas and 532,000 were issued to foreign students. More than 156,000 were issued to dependents of students and guestworkers, all in categories not authorized for employment by law.

...A huge number of work permits, 1.7 million, were issued to aliens whose status was unknown, not recorded by the adjudicator, or not disclosed by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency that processes the applications. This should be a concern; work permits are gateway documents to driver's licenses and other benefits, and if the government agency issuing them does not know or will not disclose how the bearer arrived in the country how can others rely on the authenticity of an individual's identity? It is equally disconcerting if the government does know and chooses not to disclose it.

Yes, but Democrats are for the little people, right?


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ISIS and Saudi Arabia Have the Exact Same Goal: World Domination

By Michael Snyder

When ISIS released a video which showed Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh being burned alive, it shocked the entire planet. The evil that it takes to do such a thing is on a level that is almost unspeakable. In the western world, we have a very hard time understanding what would motivate anyone to take a life in such a manner. But in the Middle East, this brand of tyranny has been percolating for a very, very long time. The brand of Islam that ISIS seeks to impose on the areas of Iraq and Syria that it has conquered has been practiced in Saudi Arabia for centuries. Just like ISIS, Saudi Arabia also publicly flogs those that “insult Islam”. Just like ISIS, Saudi Arabia also beheads those that commit serious violations of sharia law. And it is no secret that the Saudis have been pouring billions upon billions of dollars into organizations that promote jihad all over the globe. But because they have a quarter of the world’s oil reserves and they pretend to be our friends, we don’t say anything. They may be more subtle than ISIS, but ultimately they have the same goal as ISIS. When it is all said and done, the Saudis and ISIS both agree that Islam will ultimately rule the world one day. The only disagreement is about how to get there.

Approximately one out of every seven people in the world is Muslim. And the heart of the Muslim world can be found in Saudi Arabia. When ISIS militants publicly flog and behead people for not submitting to sharia law, they are just copying what Saudi Arabia has been doing for centuries. For example, a Saudi blogger was just recently sentenced to 1,000 lashes for “insulting Islam“. And on average there is a beheading in Saudi Arabia every four days.

So where is the outrage?

Is it only wrong when ISIS does it?

Oregon Legislators Should Support an Article V Convention of the States

By Mark Alspaugh

If your world view favors an all-powerful federal government that is master of virtually every social, economic and moral aspect of our lives, then you probably like the government we have in Washington today. But beware of where it leads. As Thomas Jefferson wrote: "When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated."

Many believe we have arrived. The federal debt and deficit are out of control. Entitlement programs are unsustainable. National security is center stage while our national defense capability is being hollowed out. De facto lawmaking by executive fiat and regulation is epidemic. The federal bureaucracy has become overly powerful, oppressive and politicized.

It is little wonder that by a margin of two to one, the American people believe our country is headed in the wrong direction. Yet history suggests that trying to change Washington is an exercise in futility. Electing different people may make for interesting sound bites but little more. Washington will never voluntarily give up significant power and return it to the states.

A solution is in plain sight. It is the state-led way of reining in Washington and restoring the sovereignty of the states found in Article V of the Constitution. Article V provides that whenever two-thirds of the states make application for it, Congress must convene a convention of the states for the purpose of proposing amendments to the Constitution. Congress has no discretionary alternative. Once there are sufficient applications for a common purpose, it must call the convention.

If ever there was a time for the states to intervene to right the ship of state, it is now. Time is growing short. But be not dismayed. As in other times of distress, people are standing up, stepping out and speaking up. A national, highly coordinated, nonpartisan, grass-roots movement is well under way to bring about an Article V amending convention of states. Currently enabling legislation has been introduced in a total of 38 states, including Oregon, and of these, three have already passed such bills during legislative sessions of 2014.

Larwyn's Linx: You guys beginning to get it yet? You’re Americans

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Nation

You guys beginning to get it yet? You’re Americans: Cold Fury
Obama’s Political Prayer: David Gelernter
Muslim Group’s Enthusiastic Invitation to Obama After Christian Comments: Blaze

Obama's Faith: The XX Committee
On Perpetual Peril As A Necessary Attribute Of Republics: Camp o' the Saints
Obama’s Drones Have Killed More Than the Spanish Inquisition: Patrick Poole

Border Patrol Agents Speak Out Against New Orders: Breitbart
Army finally rules Ft. Hood act of terror: ‘Greatest day for these victims’: BPR
Scandal-Ridden Brian Williams Leaves NBC News... For a Few Days: Sooper

Economy

Obama’s Big Fat Greek Budget: Sultan Knish
Obama, Unemployment and The Big Lie: RS
Simple Formula for Unleashing Economic Prosperity: Stephen Moore

Why Unemployed Men Don’t Do Housework: Thomas Purcell
Obama Student Loan Forgiveness Program: $22 Billion Shortfall: Kate Scanlon
Obama’s 529 Tax Break Debacle: Michael Reagan

Scandal Central

Obama met with Islamists including head of Hamas-tied ISNA: Pamela Geller
Obama to subsidize Iranian nuke program, sacrifice Israel, in exchange for less Jihad: GWP
Taqiyya? State Dept. admits lying about meeting with Muslim Brotherhood: Allen West

Climate & Energy

EPA overreach endangers energy prices, reliability and jobs: Mike Arms
EPA keeping WOTUS messy: Farm Futures
Attention hacks: Apply for a job at the EPA, they may not check your resume: Blaze

Media

Obamas Dine at CNN Exec's House: Daniel Halper
Female 60 Minutes Staffers ‘Creeped Out’, ‘Cringing’ Over Steve Kroft’s Lurid Sexting Scandal: JWF
The BBC and Islam: Let the children be raped: Commentator

Shattered Glass: Mark Steyn
Obama Struggles to Name the Nazis: James Lewis
Schmuck David Brooks on Prayer Breakfast: What Obama Said Was "Admirable": RCP

World

“We Are Leaving Britain – Jews Aren’t Safe Here Anymore”: WZ
Saudi Arabia And ISIS Both Want The Same Thing: World Domination: Michael Synder
The BBC and Islam: Let the children be raped: Commentator

ISIS Selling, Crucifying Children: WorldPost
Obama rejected Jordanian King Abdullah’s pleas for Predator drones: Times
Crusades Were All About Fighting The Islamic State: Ben Barrack

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Exposed – President Obama’s 322 Page Secret Plan To Regulate The Internet: Treehouse
Researchers say treadmill desks make you smarter: Daniel Cooper
Six Things Technology Has Made Insanely Cheap: Bloomberg

Cornucopia

Relax America, we now have an official national security strategy.: MOTUS
Why There Are More Women Than Men: Woodsterman
The Girl Code: C&S

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QOTD: "It was nice of the President to give us a history lesson at the Prayer breakfast. Today, however, the issue right in front of his nose, in the here and now, is the terrorism of Radical Islam, the assassination of journalists, the beheading and burning alive of captives. We will be happy to keep an eye out for runaway Christians, but it would be nice if he would face the reality of the situation today. The Medieval Christian threat is under control, Mr. President. Please deal with the Radical Islamic threat today.” --Gov. Bobby Jindal

Saturday, February 07, 2015

SOUTHERN CAL EDISON UNDER FIRE: House Oversight Chair Says Company May Be Abusing H-1B Visa Program

But they're doing it for love, right, Jeb Bush?

The layoffs of IT workers at Southern California Edison (SCE) has drawn the attention of U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, (R-Calif.), who called reports that the H-1B visa program is being used to replace part of SCE's workforce "deeply disturbing."

"Based on the information currently available, this appears to be an example of precisely what the H-1B visa is not intended to be: a program to simply replace American workers en masse with cheap labor from overseas," Issa said in a statement released late Friday.

The utility, southern California's largest, is cutting about 500 IT workers, 100 of them through voluntary departures and others through layoffs. IT employees say H-1B visa holders, working for the two outsourcers on the project, Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services -- both based in India -- are replacing them.

...Issa said that current law "requires that an employer certify that the hiring of an H-1B applicant 'will not adversely affect the working conditions of workers similarly employed,' in keeping with the program's intent of injecting new talent into the economy, rather than merely replacing current workers with lower paid counterparts."

Issa also wrote, "I urge Southern California Edison to be forthcoming in releasing information about the process behind this decision, and I look forward to a thorough and transparent account of what attempts were made to ensure this major hiring decision adheres to the very clear statutes outlining the intended structure of the H-1B visa program."

Which reminds me: The Incoherent Idiocy of Jeb Bush.


Hat tip: BadBlue Tech News.

Iran Rising

By Caroline Glick

Israel’s reported strike January 18 on a joint Iranian-Hezbollah convoy driving on the Syrian Golan Heights was one of the most strategically significant events to have occurred in Israel’s neighborhood in recent months. Its significance lies both in what it accomplished operationally and what it exposed.

From what been published to date about the identities of those killed in the strike, it is clear that in one fell swoop the air force decapitated the Iranian and Hezbollah operational command in Syria.

The head of Hezbollah’s operations in Syria, the head of its liaison with Iran, and Jihad Mughniyeh, the son of Hezbollah’s longtime operational commander Imad Mughniyeh who was killed by Israel in Damascus in 2008, were killed. The younger Mughniyeh reportedly served as commander of Hezbollah forces along the Syrian-Israeli border.

According to a report by Brig.-Gen. (res.) Shimon Shapira, a Hezbollah expert from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, the Iranian losses included three generals. Brig.- Gen. Mohammed Alladadi was the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps liaison officer to Hezbollah and to Syrian intelligence. He was also in charge of weapons shipments from Iran to Hezbollah. Gen. Ali Tabatabai was the IRGC commander in the Golan Heights and, according to Shapira, an additional general, known only as Assadi, “was, in all likelihood, the commander of Iranian expeditionary forces in Lebanon.”

The fact that the men were willing to risk exposure by traveling together along the border with Israel indicates how critical the front is for the regime in Tehran. It also indicates that in all likelihood, they were planning an imminent attack against Israel.

THE REALITY BENEATH "LOW UNEMPLOYMENT" PROPAGANDA: Less than half of adult Americans are employed full-time

By Michael Snyder

Jim Clifton, the Chairman and CEO of Gallup, says that the percentage of Americans that are employed full-time has been hovering near record lows since the end of the last recession. But most Americans don’t realize this because the official unemployment numbers are extremely misleading. In fact, Clifton says that the official 5.6 percent unemployment rate is a “big lie”. Gallup regularly tracks the percentage of U.S. adults that are employed for 30 or more hours per week, and it is currently at 44.2 percent. It has been hovering between 42 percent and 45 percent since the end of 2009. This is extremely low. As I discussed the other day, there are 8.69 million Americans that are considered to be “officially unemployed” at this point. But there are another 92.90 million Americans that are considered to be “not in the labor force”. Millions upon millions of those Americans would work if they could. Overall, there are 101 million U.S. adults that do not have a job right now. But you won’t hear that number being discussed by the mainstream media, because it would make Barack Obama look really bad.

Most Americans just assume that the economic numbers that we are being given accurately reflect reality. That is why it is so refreshing to have men like Jim Clifton step forward and tell the truth. His recent article entitled “The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment” is making headlines all over America. The following is an extended excerpt from that article…

There’s another reason why the official rate is misleading. Say you’re an out-of-work engineer or healthcare worker or construction worker or retail manager: If you perform a minimum of one hour of work in a week and are paid at least $20 — maybe someone pays you to mow their lawn — you’re not officially counted as unemployed in the much-reported 5.6%. Few Americans know this.

Yet another figure of importance that doesn’t get much press: those working part time but wanting full-time work. If you have a degree in chemistry or math and are working 10 hours part time because it is all you can find — in other words, you are severely underemployed — the government doesn’t count you in the 5.6%. Few Americans know this.

There’s no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie.

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Nation

Democrats have a choice, but it’s not Netanyahu versus Obama: LI
Obama Spat with Israel’s Netanyahu was White House Creation: Brent Scher
Obama: I’ll meet your ISIS, and raise you The Crusades: LI

Obama Held Secret Meeting With Islamic Leaders Before Ripping Christians: MB
The Depravity of Obama’s Prayer Breakfast Remarks: CHQ
The Correction: Liel Leibovitz

A Candidate for Both Suburban and Countryside Republicans?: Michael Barone
Article V Splits Conservative Grassroots: VARight
Jindal Provides Perfect Response To Obama’s Silly Christian Bashing: RWN

Five Ideas To Prevent America’s Coming Demographic Suicide: Joy Pullmann
NYPD Has a Plan to Magically Turn Anyone It Wants Into a Felon: Andy Cush
Democrats Have No Facts to Support “High Capacity Magazine” Bill: Bob Owens

Economy

Illegal Immigrants to Receive Earned Income Tax Credit: WS
Report: 400 Lose Jobs Due to Obama's Lower Paid H-1B Visa Immigrants: Breitbart
Standard & A Lot Poorer's: Six Meat Buffet

Scandal Central

Benghazi Committee’s Democrats and Republicans Want to Question Hillary Clinton: Sharyl Attkisson
PIGS FLY! WAPO Editorial Rips Obama's Iran Negotiations: Lid
Good News: IRS Rehires Former Staffers Who Cheated on Their Taxes: JWF

Media

Williams: I Looked Down the Very Tube of the RPG That Shot Down Copter in '07: Ace
Don’t blame Tea Partiers for liberal #Antivaxxers: LI
‘Can NBC News Now Have Any Credibility With Brian Williams As Its Face?’: Ed Driscoll

Please Stay On, Brian Williams: Tom Blumer
Brian Williams Broke Veterans’ First Rule—and Now He’s Paying for It: Jacob Siegel
Did Brian Williams lie in Hurricane Katrina reports?: DailyMail

Bishop to Obama: "Instead of Closing Gitmo... You Ought to Close Your Mouth!": RightPundit
Report: NBC Will Not Suspend, Fire or Even Punish Brian Williams: Tina Nguyen
An Open Letter to Jeb Bush: Alex David

World

Jihadists continue to advertise training camps in Iraq and Syria: LWJ
Islamic Leader: Seeking Death of Gays Isn't "Extremist," It's What Every Good Muslim Seeks: Ace
It’s true! there IS a shadowy transnational Jewish group plotting to influence elections!: Moe Lane

What you bring when you run for your life: The Week
More On "No-Go Zones": Displacing What Is Disagreeable: Douglas Murray
In the Socialist Petri Dish of Venezuela a Condom Package Now Costs $755: BlurBrain

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Electric Car Powered by Salt Water: AetherForce
Downtown Manhattan's Weirdest Building Sold for $55 Million: Gawker
300-Year-old Scientific Riddle Solved! Earth's Center Spins In An Eastward Direction: SWR

Cornucopia

Flying Blind: Hopenchange
Comic Book Warriors: Springer's Blog
Rapper Flavor Flav Wants U.S. ‘Boots on the Ground’ to Kill ISIS: Asawin Suebsaeng

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QOTD: "How do we, as people of faith, reconcile these realities --the profound good, the strength, the tenacity, the compassion and love that can flow from all of our faiths, operating alongside those who seek to hijack religious for their own murderous ends?

Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history. And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ." --Barack Obama (via AOSHQ)

Friday, February 06, 2015

Sheriffs Push Back Against Homeland Security’s ‘Not-So Veiled Threat’

By Melissa Quinn

Hundreds of miles from the nation’s capital, local sheriffs are feeling reverberations from Congress’ fight over Department of Homeland Security funding.

This week, Secretary Jeh Johnson delivered what one sheriff views as a “not-so veiled threat” on what could happen if an agreement isn’t reached. Johnson’s statement, released Tuesday, explains why Congress needs to pass a bill funding the federal agency before Feb. 27.

But a sheriff in Colorado is pushing back against Johnson’s message.

In the statement, Johnson called for a Homeland Security funding bill “unburdened by politically charged amendments that attempt to defund our executive actions on immigration reform.” He reiterates President Obama’s threat to veto any legislation the attempts to block his immigration policies.

“It’s a not-so-veiled threat that if [lawmakers] don’t do what the president wants, law enforcement agencies are going to get the short end of the stick,” said Sheriff Justin Smith of Larimer County, Colo.

MARK LEVIN ON BARACK OBAMA: This man is a nihilist and a narcissist and an extremist

Via Real Clear Politics

SEAN HANNITY: You talk about moral relativism. The terrible deeds in the name of Christ, he can't even say the Islamic State is ISIS. Would he ever say the terrible deeds committed in the name of Muhammad? Did you ever hear those words coming out of his mouth?

MARK LEVIN: No, we won't. This man is a nihilist and a narcissist and an extremist. And I would like to suggest that -- Mr. Obama, here's a suggestion for you as the leader of the United States. This weekend rather than going off and campaigning or going on vacation, why don't you go across the Potomac River into Arlington National Cemetery?

Why don't you walk the rows and rows and rows of the dead heroes who liberated peoples who were facing genocide and tyranny of all kinds, World War I, World War ii, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and all kinds of wars. Those young men, if you look at those headstones, the overwhelming majority, all religions, but the overwhelming majority, Mr. Obama, are Christians. Why didn't you speak to them today, Mr. Obama?